ClafsIV. GREY GURNARBD. 231 
we receive further informations from the inhabitants 
of our Weftern coafts, where thefe fifh are found, we 
fhall remain doubtful whether we have done right in 
feparating this from the former, efpecially as Doéfor 
Gronovius has pronounced them to be only varieties. 
_Genvs XXXII. Nofe floping. . 
Head covered with ftrong bony 
plates. . 
Seven branchioftegous rays. 
Three flender appendages at. the 
bafe of the pectoral fins. 
ee _ Gurnarp. 
th The GREY GU:RoN A: Roh 
Gurnatus feuGurnardusgrife-  queoculum. Arted. fynon. 74. 
us, the Grey. Gurnard. Wil. 'Trigla Gurnardis, Tr. digitis 
. Icth. 279. Raii fyn. pifc. 88. ternis dorfo maculis nigris 
Trigla vario roftro diacantho,  rubrifque. Lin. fy. 497. 
aculeis geminis ad utrum- § Gronov. Zooph. No. 283. 
HE nofe pretty long, and floping: the end 
bifurcated, and each fide armed with three 
fhort fpines. 
The eyes very large; above each were two fhort 
fpines: the forehead and covers of the gills fil- 
very ; the laft finely radiated. 
The teeth fmall, placed in the lower and upper 
jaws, in the roof of the mouth, and bafe of the 
tongue. 
Q Noftrils 
